New Economy Working Group

The candidates for next month’s selection could finally change the game of serving markets over people – and we all might have a role to play.

Even today, Sachs’s approach to development remains top-down and formulaic.

Even today, Sachs’s approach to development remains top-down and formulaic.

The statistics upon which most poverty elimination strategies are based are extremely misleading, and often steer experts toward the wrong solutions.

Incorporating corporate globalization into the Occupy analysis and agenda.

The Occupy movement is clearly affecting political rhetoric… but what about real action?

Undemocratic provisions in treaties enable corporations to sue governments in international tribunals over environmental, health, and other measures foreign countries take to protect the public.

Industrial agriculture advocates say organic farming cannot produce enough food for 7 billion people. A group of rice farmers in the Philippines is proving them wrong.

Building a policy agenda to deepen the jobs debate, our new report looks at the structural issues behind the economic crisis and how we can transition to a new economy based on Main Street.

Putting more money in the hands of those who already have jobs so they can buy more Chinese imports does very little to put Americans to work in good jobs that pay good wages.

In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years.

Before there were hashtags, 32 years ago, more than a thousand protesters tried to shut Wall Street down for a day.

Maryland’s GPI assesses what’s left behind when the state’s economy officially expands.

Maryland’s government is embracing an alternative way to monitor the state’s wellbeing called the Genuine Progress Indicator, which brings depth to the analysis of the state’s economic growth.

If Howard Zinn were alive today, he’d be writing a new chapter right now.

When the Great Depression hit, Congress lacked any tools with which to accurately measure just how the economy as a whole was faring.

The chamber helps the “built-to-loot” companies.

Back from sabbatical, our director reflects on the challenged of the day and how the Obama administration can face them.

To protect their water supply, Salvadorans are trying to ban corporate gold mining – and facing threats and violence as a result.

Securing our future means looking for real solutions to our economic woes, not looking to Wall Street.